Salt

Place of Originprobably England

Date1760-1790

Dimensions2 13/16 × 2 3/8 × 2 1/16 in. (7.2 × 6.1 × 5.3 cm)

Mediumcolorless lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.262

Not on View

DescriptionDouble-ogee bowl blown in a part-size mold, probably of two pieces, bearing a pattern of six rows of fourteen diamonds, the top row incomplete, above a band of fourteen diamond-point flutes. The flutes are drawn together to form a solid join with the applied slightly sloping foot that terminates in eight scallops or petals. Rough, solid pontil mark on base.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 780, no. 1317.